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aliases:
  - context: missionID
    lexicon: ceos
    term: 278
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/missionsummary.aspx?missionID=278
  - context: Mission
    lexicon: ceos
    term: OCEANSAT-2
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/missionindex.aspx#O
  - context: resource
    lexicon: dbpedia
    term: Oceansat-2
    url: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceansat-2
  - context: Platform
    lexicon: podaac
    term: Oceansat-2
    url: http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/datasetlist?ids=Platform&values=Oceansat-2
cited_by: []
contributors:
  - display_name: 'Contributor : Indian Space Research Organisation '
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/contributor/3726.yaml
    id: 3726
    organization:
      country_code: IN
      display_name: Indian Space Research Organisation
      identifier: indian-space-research-organisation
      name: Indian Space Research Organisation
      organization_type_identifier: national
      type: organization
      url: http://www.isro.org/
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    person_uri: ~
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    uri: /contributor/3726
description: 'The ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) spacecraft OceanSat-2 is envisaged to provide service continuity for the operational users of OCM (Ocean Color Monitor) data as well as to enhance the application potential in other areas. OCM is flown on IRS-P4/OceanSat-1, launched May 26, 1999. The main objectives of OceanSat-2 are to study surface winds and ocean surface strata, observation of chlorophyll concentrations, monitoring of phytoplankton blooms, study of atmospheric aerosols and suspended sediments in the water. OceanSat-2 will play an important role in forecasting the onset of the monsoon and its subsequent advancement over the Indian subcontinent and over South-East Asia. - The OceanSat-2 mission was approved by the Government of India on July 16, 2005.'
description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/o/oceansat-2
display_name: ocean-satellite-2
end_date: 2016-09-01T00:00:00
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identifier: ocean-satellite-2
instruments:
  - description: Medium-resolution spectro-radiometer
    description_attribution: Medium-resolution spectro-radiometer
    identifier: ocean-colour-monitor
    name: Ocean Colour Monitor
    uri: /instrument/ocean-colour-monitor
  - description: GNSS radio-occultation receiver
    description_attribution: GNSS radio-occultation receiver
    identifier: radio-occultation-sounder-for-the-atmosphere
    name: Radio Occultation Sounder for the Atmosphere
    uri: /instrument/radio-occultation-sounder-for-the-atmosphere
  - description: Radar scatterometer
    description_attribution: Radar scatterometer
    identifier: scatterometer-oceansat-2
    name: Scatterometer (OCEANSAT-2)
    uri: /instrument/scatterometer-oceansat-2
name: Ocean Satellite-2
parents: []
platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
references: []
start_date: 2009-09-24T00:00:00
type: platform
uri: /platform/ocean-satellite-2
url: http://www.isro.org/